"Lou Gehrig Henry Louis Gehrig, (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), nicknamed ""the Iron Horse"", was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire professional career (17 seasons) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 until 1939. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname ""the Iron Horse."" He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career"
"40 years with another."" She dedicated the remainder of her life to supporting ALS research. She died 43 years after Lou on March 6, 1984, and was interred with him in Kensico Cemetery. The Yankees dedicated a monument to Gehrig in center field at Yankee Stadium on July 6, 1941; the shrine lauded him as ""A man, a gentleman and a great ballplayer whose amazing record of 2,130 consecutive games should stand for all time."" Gehrig's monument joined the one placed there in 1932 to Miller Huggins, which would eventually be followed by Babe Ruth's in 1949. Gehrig's birthplace in"
"and Babe Ruth in April 1948. Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day was held on July 4, 1939, and remains baseball's most famous such gathering. After hearing tearful speeches from friends and former teammates who had seen his career cut short by the illness which would come to bear his name, Gehrig delivered a short poignant speech, immortalized by his declaration that in spite of his fate he still considered himself the ""luckiest man on the face of the earth."" The first Old-Timers' Day held under this name took place on the final day of the 1947 season. Today, the Yankees invite"
"home runs (8th in the AL), and 108 RBIs (9th in the AL). Gehringer also led AL second basemen with 489 assists and a .985 fielding percentage. Gehringer finished 6th in the AL MVP voting in 1935. Known for his consistency as a hitter and fielder, Gehringer was given the nickname ""The Mechanical Man"" by Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez. Mickey Cochrane joked that ""Charlie says `hello' on Opening Day, `goodbye' on closing day, and in between hits .350."" Shortstop Billy Rogell hit .275 and scored 88 runs in 1935 while drawing 80 walks. Rogell also led AL shortstops with 104"
"Gehringer also lead AL second basemen in fielding percentage and was among the major league leaders with a .473 on-base percentage (2nd in MLB), 300 times on base (3rd in MLB), 135 runs created (3rd in MLB), 133 runs (4th in MLB), and 209 hits (5th in the AL). Known for his consistency as a hitter and fielder, Gehringer was given the nickname ""The Mechanical Man"" by Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez. Mickey Cochrane joked that ""Charlie says `hello' on Opening Day, `goodbye' on closing day, and in between hits .350."" Shortstop Billy Rogell led all AL shortstops in fielding percentage"
"behind Josh Gibson. He led the Negro leagues in batting average in 1948 with a mark of .395, and usually either led the league in home runs or finished second in homers to teammate Gibson. Since Gibson was known as the ""Black Babe Ruth"" and Leonard was a first baseman, Buck Leonard was inevitably called the ""Black Lou Gehrig."" Together, the pair was colloquially known as the ""Thunder Twins"" or ""Dynamite Twins"". In fact, Negro league star Monte Irvin said that if Leonard had been allowed in the major leagues, baseball fans ""might have called Lou Gehrig the white Buck"
"1910, he lived with his parents at 2266 Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights. In 1920, the family resided on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. His name was often anglicized to Henry Louis Gehrig and he was known as ""Lou"" so he would not be confused with his identically named father, who was known as Henry. Gehrig first garnered national attention for his baseball ability while playing in a game at Cubs Park (now Wrigley Field) on June 26, 1920. His New York School of Commerce team was playing a team from Chicago's Lane Tech High School in front of a crowd"
"pitcher Joe McGinnity, who was known for pitching in back to back doubleheaders and leading his league in innings pitched four times in five seasons from 1900 to 1904. He also played professionally until age 54. His nickname was ""Iron Man"" although he said the name came from his off season work for his family's foundry business. In 1941, endurance by an athlete was recognized as an ""iron man"" by the press when Lou Gehrig had a streak of 2,130 consecutive games end when he had asked the manager to take him out of the line up due to his"
"on May 30 of that year. With Ruth retired, Gehrig finally had a chance to take center stage, but it was only one year before a new star appeared, Joe DiMaggio. The team won an unprecedented four straight World Series titles from 1936 to 1939. For most of 1939, however, they had to do it without Gehrig, who took himself out of the lineup and retired due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is commonly known as ""Lou Gehrig's Disease"" in his memory. The Yankees declared July 4, 1939 to be ""Lou Gehrig Day"", on which they retired his number 4,"
"Man on the Face of the Earth"" speech at Yankee Stadium. In 1969, the Baseball Writers' Association voted Gehrig the greatest first baseman of all time, and he was the leading vote-getter on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team chosen by fans in 1999. A monument in Gehrig's honor, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player who best exhibits Gehrig's integrity and character. Gehrig was born in 1903 at 309 East 94th Street in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan; he"
"Fame in 1987. He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in his early 50s. He died of the disease about a year after his diagnosis. Hunter has been the subject of numerous popular culture references, including the Bob Dylan song ""Catfish"". The youngest son of eight children, Hunter was born and raised in Hertford in northeast North Carolina. He grew up on a farm and excelled in a variety of sports at Perquimans County High School. He played linebacker and offensive tackle in football as well as shortstop, cleanup batter, and pitcher in baseball."
"Charlie Gehringer Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed ""The Mechanical Man"", was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who played 19 seasons (1924–42) for the Detroit Tigers. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949. Widely regarded as one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Gehringer, who batted left-handed and threw with his right, compiled a .320 batting average and had seven seasons with more than 200 hits. He was the American League batting champion in 1937 with a .371 average and was also named the American League's Most"
"baseman Lou Gehrig were part of the team's Murderers' Row lineup, which led the Yankees to a then-AL record 110 wins and a Series championship in 1927 under Miller Huggins. They repeated as World Series winners in 1928, and their next title came under manager Joe McCarthy in 1932. The Yankees won the World Series every year from 1936 to 1939 with a team that featured Gehrig and outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who recorded a record hitting streak during New York's 1941 championship season. New York set a major league record by winning five consecutive championships from 1949 to 1953, and"
"to Yankees First Baseman Lou Gehrig, although Lou used to work out at the New York Turnverein as a youth. Adelaide Gehrig Adelaide Gehrig (June 11, 1887 – March 5, 1944) was an American fencer. Gehrig was the only woman in United States foil history to win four consecutive titles. She was born in 1887 in Newark, New Jersey, to German immigrants John Gehrig (a blacksmith) and Maria Gehrig née Lang. Representing the New York Turnverein, Gehrig was AFLA Women's Foil Champion four years in a row (1920 to 1923), a feat unmatched by any other American woman. In 1924,"
"for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until surpassed by Cal Ripken, Jr., in 1995. Gehrig's consecutive game streak ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular illness now commonly referred to in North America as ""Lou Gehrig's disease."" The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and was the cause of his death two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 ""Luckiest"
"only half of Americans had heard of the disease, often referred to as ""Lou Gehrig's disease"", after the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig, who publicly revealed his diagnosis in 1939. After the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media, public awareness and charitable donations to ALS charities soared. Hits to the English Wikipedia's article on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis grew from an average of 163,300 views per month to 2.89 million views in August 2014, and similar increases occurred in the Spanish and German Wikipedias. Within weeks of the challenge going viral, ""The New York Times"" reported that the ALS"
"York Giants manager John McGraw advised him to play summer professional baseball under an assumed name, Henry Lewis, despite the fact that it could jeopardize his collegiate sports eligibility. After he played a dozen games for the Hartford Senators in the Eastern League, he was discovered and banned from collegiate sports his freshman year. In 1922, Gehrig returned to collegiate sports as a fullback for the Columbia Lions football program. Later, in 1923, he played first base and pitched for the Columbia baseball team. At Columbia, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. On April 18, 1923, the"
"The Pride of the Yankees The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as ""Lou Gehrig's disease"". Though subtitled ""The Life of Lou Gehrig"", the film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure whose tragic"
"continues Wagenheim, ""and he laughed louder and clapped harder than anyone else at the table."" Rud Rennie served as an honorary pallbearer in Babe Ruth's funeral in 1948. In his stories and magazine features, Rennie was an early booster of the Yankees’ first baseman and slugger Lou Gehrig, who had joined the team in 1923 and enjoyed his breakout season in 1926. When in 1936 it was noted in the media that Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller was retiring from his long screen role as Tarzan the Ape Man in the Hollywood films memorializing the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels,"
"sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 75. George Yardley George Harry Yardley III (November 3, 1928 – August 13, 2004) was an American basketball player. He was the first player in NBA history to score 2,000 points in one season, breaking the 1,932-point record held by George Mikan. Yardley was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996. A two-time All-American at Stanford University, Yardley was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and earned the nickname ""Yardbird"" due to the chores he was required to complete by his fraternity brothers. The"
"Game, but when Yankees president Ed Barrow got ahold of the idea, he quickly shot down the All-Star Game suggestion. He did not want Gehrig to share the spotlight with any other all-star. Believing the idea was valid and the best thing to do, he wanted the appreciation day to be soon, and the Yankees proclaimed July 4, 1939, ""Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day"" at Yankee Stadium. Between games of the Independence Day doubleheader against the Washington Senators, the poignant ceremonies were held on the diamond. In its coverage the following day, ""The New York Times"" said it was ""perhaps as"
"top-grossing films of the year—Cooper's fourth consecutive picture to make the top twenty. Cooper's only film appearance in 1942 was also his last under his Goldwyn contract. In Sam Wood's biographical film ""The Pride of the Yankees"", Cooper portrays baseball star Lou Gehrig who established a record with the New York Yankees for playing in 2,130 consecutive games. Cooper was reluctant to play the seven-time All-Star, who only died the previous year from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — now commonly called ""Lou Gehrig's disease"". Beyond the challenges of effectively portraying such a popular and nationally recognized figure, Cooper knew very"
"as a regular season three-game weekend series at AT&T—the first meeting in San Francisco in 11 years—on April 26–28. In game two of the teams' September 2013 meeting, Alex Rodriguez hit a Grand Slam, breaking Lou Gehrig's grand slam record. In his July 4, 1939 farewell speech ending with the renowned ""Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth"", Yankee slugger Lou Gehrig, who played in 2,130 consecutive games, declared that the Giants were a team he ""would give his right arm to beat, and vice versa."" As of 2012, the Major League Baseball Hall"
"as the little sparrows on the limbs. Arthur's job was to win ball games minus talent. He couldn't do it."" While managing the Eastern League's Hartford Senators in 1921 against a New York semi-pro team, Irwin noticed the play of Lou Gehrig and convinced him to sign his first professional contract with Hartford. Gehrig had already committed to play at Columbia University and professional experience would affect his collegiate eligibility, so he began playing for Hartford using assumed names like Lou Lewis. However, Columbia found out about Gehrig's play and the slugger was forced to sit out of college baseball"
"Hank Greenberg Henry Benjamin Greenberg (born Hyman Greenberg; January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed ""Hammerin' Hank"", ""Hankus Pankus"", or ""The Hebrew Hammer"", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Detroit Tigers as a first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a two-time MVP winner, he was one of the premier power hitters of his generation and is widely considered as one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history. He had 47 months of military service including service"
"opponents: The Yankees won their first 26 World Series championships while playing in Yankee Stadium, with their 27th coming in the first year of playing at its namesake replacement (). Perhaps the most memorable moment in the venue's history came on July 4, 1939, designated as ""Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day"". Gehrig, forced out of action permanently by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and facing his impending death, gave a legendary farewell speech thanking his fans and colleagues for making him ""the luckiest man on the face of the earth"". Many memorable and historic games have been played at Yankee Stadium. All"
"to Fletcher, Donie Bush and Eddie Collins, all of whom declined. Eventually, ""Bob the Gob"" Shawkey agreed to serve as the Yankees manager for the 1930 season, leading the team to a third-place finish. Huggins was listed at and . His small stature inspired the nicknames ""Mighty Mite"" and the ""Mite Manager"". He was also known as ""Rabbit"" and ""Little Everywhere"" for his ability to cover ground in the infield. An excellent leadoff batter and defensive second baseman, he ended his playing career with a .265 batting average and .956 fielding percentage. He led the league in walks four times"
"health. On June 21, the New York Yankees announced his official retirement and proclaimed July 4, 1939, ""Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day"" at Yankee Stadium. Between games of the Independence Day doubleheader against the Washington Senators, the poignant ceremonies were held on the diamond. In its coverage the following day, ""The New York Times"" said it was ""Perhaps as colorful and dramatic a pageant as ever was enacted on a baseball field [as] 61,808 fans thundered a hail and farewell"". Dignitaries extolled the dying slugger and the members of the 1927 Yankees World Championship team, known as ""Murderer's Row"", attended the"
".340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team. A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University, Gehrig signed with the Yankees in 1923. He set several major-league records during his career, including the most career grand slams (23) (since broken by Alex Rodriguez) and most consecutive games played (2,130), a record that stood"
"nickname ""The Hangman"" due to his penchant for clotheslining tackles. From 1973 to 1977, he called the Redskins' defensive signals and acted as the defensive quarterback for head coach George Allen. He was a Four-time First-team All-Pro in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1976 and a Second-team All-Pro in 1969 and 1974. Additionally, he was either a Pro Bowler or an All-Conference selection every year from 1966 though 1976 with the exception of 1971—receiving post-season honors in 10 of 11 seasons in that span. From 1971 to 1973, he and Jack Pardee, outside linebacker on the opposite side, formed a particularly"
"uniform numbers in 1929, McCarthy never wore a number with the Yankees. Ruppert's plaque was placed on the outfield wall, to the right of the flagpole. The Lou Gehrig monument was placed to the left of the Huggins monument. Gehrig was the first Major League Baseball player to have his uniform number retired. The Babe Ruth monument was placed to the right of the Huggins monument. The Ed Barrow plaque was placed on the wall, to the left of the flagpole. In honor of Jackie Robinson's unique place as the first black player of the modern era, his number 42"
"McGraw Monument stands in his hometown of Truxton. John McGraw John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873 – February 25, 1934), nicknamed ""Little Napoleon"" and ""Mugsy"", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager of the New York Giants. He stood tall and weighed . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. While primarily a third baseman throughout his career, he also played shortstop and the outfield in the major leagues. Much lauded as a player, McGraw was one of the standard-bearers of dead-ball era baseball. He was known for his quick temper and for bending"
"NFL his nickname was ""Tombstone"", He got famous for moves such as the ""head slap"" and the ""halo spinner"" which he used to subdue opposing offensive linemen. In Lyle Alzado's book ""Mile High"" he recalled Jackson as the toughest man he'd ever met, and told the story of Jackson breaking the helmet of Green Bay Packer offensive tackle, Bill Hayhoe, with a headslap. He had 10 sacks in both 1968 and 1970 and posted a career-high total of 11 in 1969. He was named 1st Team All-AFL by the AP, ""Pro Football Weekly"", and UPI at the conclusion of the"